Top Five Libertarian Christmas Wishes For Trump Administration By Kitty Testa Many of us will be opening gifts this weekend, tearing through the wrappings to find wonderful surprises, some we never knew we wanted, and some that came from our Christmas Wish Lists. Wouldn’t it be a wonderful surprise if our new president fulfilled a…
By Kathryn Watson A loophole in federal law allows Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees and other federal workers get away with deleting millions of official records created using cellphone text messaging, according to government transparency experts. The Federal Records Act (FRA) and EPA policy allow individual employees who create and receive cell phone text messages…
By Eric Lieberman Twitter overcharged marketers as much as 35 percent after a bug was discovered in its Android app that inflates the video advertising metric. Twitter disclosed the technical glitch to advertisers earlier in the week, but didn’t publicly make an announcement until Thursday, reports Business Insider. “We recently discovered a technical error due to a Twitter product update to…
By Kathryn Watson Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials only archived 86 text messages out of 3.1 million agency employees sent and received in 2015, according to a federal watchdog’s report made public Wednesday by House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith. The EPA Office of Inspector General (IG) released the report requested…
By Juliegrace Brufke Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is casting doubt over whether President-elect Donald Trump still wants to “drain the swamp.” During the course of the election, Trump repeatedly used the phrase as a way to illustrate his promise to minimize the bureaucracy in Washington. Gingrich, who worked as a Trump surrogate…
by Juliegrace Brufke Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is celebrating Festivus, the secular holiday popularized by the hit TV series “Seinfeld,” by airing his grievances about government waste. “At the Festivus dinner, you gather your family around, and tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year!” Frank Costanza, the fictional creator of…
By Eric Lieberman A high-level staff member at Oracle, a huge computer technology corporation, announced his resignation Monday after co-CEO Safra Catz agreed to join the Trump transition team earlier in December. President-elect Donald Trump hosted several tech leaders for a meeting at Trump Tower in New York a week ago, and Catz seemed one…
By Kathryn Watson When President-elect Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20, he will have plenty of targets for cutting wasteful government spending — like the $400,000 taxpayers spent studying glaciers through the lens of feminism. Americans believe the federal government wastes 51 cents on the dollar, and while the federal government has no concrete estimate…
by Ian Tartt Most people are familiar with Kentucky Fried Chicken, or KFC as it’s commonly known. But few today are aware of the story of the man behind the restaurant: Colonel Harland Sanders. Born in Indiana in 1890, Sanders was the oldest of three. After his father’s death, Sanders began looking after his younger…
by Chris White The Washington Post blamed the Electoral College for making so-called man-made global warming nearly impossible to “thwart.” The last two U.S. presidents who lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College have actively worked against efforts to end global warming, Todd Cort, the co-director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment,…